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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bleys Icefalcon" data-source="post: 6742783" data-attributes="member: 6670542">This is an interesting topic to me, as I have often struggled with this.Before I joined the Navy we would play almost every night, as I worked in a Drive In Theater.  We would play during the show, and well into the wee hours after the park was closed - this was quite common for our group.  I'd guess we'd go for 35-40 hours a week.  Sometimes more.  When I joined the Navy, during all of my training I gravitated rather quickly to my fellow gamers and we'd play, usually starting just after work on Friday and do a massive marathon that usually ran right up until 30 minutes or so before breakfast... Monday Morning.  We would take turns Dming, with people dropping on one of the couches for naps throughout.Ahem, that was too much DnD.Anyway, once at sea things HAD to slow down, as there simply wasn't enough time to sit down and make time for a game... was there?  Well, turns out there was.  In one of our auxiliary spaces, we set up a game room.  24 hours a day, 7 days a week the members of our crew, enlisted and commissioned would come and hang, taking turns at playing and DMing - a seemingly endless game that went on for months.Ahem, more too, too much DnDWhen we would hit liberty ports, on top of the regular things that sailor's would do, a group of us would pool our money and get a conference room, or two adjoining rooms at a hotel, usually on the beach - and yet again a game would occur, usually running the entire time we were in port.GahFinally upon reaching my first shore duty, that didn't have me as a traineee - I got my first apartment of my own and that first taste of a social life outside my gaming.  To this day I am amazed that the lady I fell for had nothing to do with gaming.  Some 26 years later she still shakes her head at my giddy excitement, and walks away muttering "you and your stupid game" in a baffled, joking way.With the duties of fatherhood (two adult offspring now) and my seeming endless mountain of honey-does, I found that by gaming every weekend, I was falling farther and farther behind in my chores - and learning a new and terrible term: Wife Aggro.  So, since mid 2004 - until present, we game every other Saturday.  The least I have gamed since my 16th birthday...</blockquote>

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